I am looking for opinions or perhaps your pictures.

We are planning to open the wall between our kitchen and dining room. I have always loved white cabinets, so of course that is what I want for the kitchen. The rest of our house has lots of beautiful 1920s woodwork, which I also love. So to make the wood in the dining room work with the white cabinets in the kitchen I thought we could have a few components in the kitchen be stained cherry and the rest painted a warm white. My plan was the beverage station, range hood and peninsula stained cherry. Our cabinet maker has suggested that this looks best when the contrasting cabinets are not touching or have some natural separation. This works for the beverage station and the hood, but not the peninsula. What do you think? Is this a valid concern? Will it look strange? The peninsula will be separating the dining room from the kitchen, so it is very visible from the dining room. A drywall base is not an option.

Thanks!